My Best Fiend

Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski

Herzog reminisces about his frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski, a great actor and a horrifyingly volatile man.

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • Germany 1999. 99min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • Some English subtitles

A fascinating, sometimes horrifying, highly personal study of Herzog’s former collaborator, undoubtedly a great actor but also a worryingly volatile, self-obsessed person with whom the director famously had a very fruitful but extremely difficult professional relationship. Archive footage, clips of Kinski’s performances, and reminiscences by Herzog, Claudia Cardinale, Eva Mattes and others who worked with the actor make for an intriguingly rounded portrait.